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Compared to his fathers militaristic mentality, Alexander had a ______ mentality
A liberal Mentality
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What nickname did Alexander earn
Alexander the Liberator for Liberating the Serfs
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Why did he want to liberate the serfs
His first hand glimpse at the struggle they lived during the Crimean War
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Why was it good for the state to emancipate the serfs
the state was becoming increasingly responsible for them with gentry borrowing money
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What percent of the state was in servitude, what fraction did the state hold account for
about 50% and 2/3
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How did the state approach the emancipating of serfs
At fisrt with small reforms, but by the mid 19th century they were experiencing frequent uprisings
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From whom did alexander II recieve heavy backlash from
members of the court and imperial family, and elite class people saying serfs shouldn't hold the same legal rights
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Why was emancipation a mixed blessing for the serfs
Conditions after emancipation depended on circumstance, agriculture serfs got land, households serfs didn't. And the costs of being free couldn't be met
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About how many people did Alexander II liberate
about 50 million
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Why was the redistribution of land problematic
unsustanible size of plots, poor land quality, lacking of natural resources, surplus of labor and unemployment
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What reforms was Alexander II responsible for
Bringing in western judiciary practices (trail by jury) and creatino of the zemstvo a modernized form of local government, and modernizing of the military with a random draft
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Alexander II faced nationalist revolts from which countries
POland, Lithuania, and Belorussia
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Russian radical groups began to mimick western movements like which groups
Slavophilism, Marxism, nihilists, and Jacobins
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How did these radical groups think they could bring change to russia
With assassination and violence, after several tries, they finally kill Alexander in March 1881
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What was the 1877 war with Turkey about
repression and massacre of Balkan people under ottoman rule
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To who and for how much did Russia sell Alaska
Sold Alaska to U.S. in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars
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